On April 17th, 2004, I exhibited my sculpture Gemini (conjoined at genitals) as part of the WhamBamTrans Arts Festival. Curated by Luke Woodward and Corinne Teed, the exhibition and arts festival took place at a warehouse in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and included visual art, film and performances made by trans and gender queer creators. WhamBamTranswas sponsored by the Creative Arts Council at Brown Univeristy, the school’s Queer Alliance, and the Equity Action Fund.

From InNewsweekly, “RI plays host to its first celebration of transgender artists – The Wham Bam Arts Festival takes over a Pawtucket warehouse for one day last weekend”:

PAWTUCKET, RI – The WhamBamTrans Arts Fest, a daylong extravaganza of transexual and transgender artists and their work, was held Saturday April 17th, in a two-story brick warehouse off Mineral Spring Avenue.

About 60 people attended the festival, which was the first of its kind to be held in Rhode Island. Other similar festivals have been held in various parts of the country, including San Francisco

Luke Woodward, a student at Brown University who identifies as a female-to-male transgender, organized the festival as a way to bring the transgender community together.

Woodward told in newsweekly that the festival was about “connecting the artist community with the transgender community” and the “gay and lesbian community with the transgender community.”